The Three Kingdoms

Xi Zhicai raised his head, looked at Cao Cao, and reminded him mercilessly.

"Zhicai, it's really not a good thing for me to play chess with you. Among all the civil and military courts, you are the only one who doesn't want to flatter me at all!"

Cao Cao smiled bitterly, and then made a move amidst all kinds of entanglements.

"Your Majesty's level of playing chess today is not as good as in the past, it seems that he is absent-minded!" Xi Zhicai said if he thought so.

The situation of the chess game is one-sided. On the one hand, Cao Cao is indeed no match for Xi Zhicai in terms of chess skills. On the other hand, Cao Cao's thoughts are beyond the sky.

"I'm thinking about the Battle of Bingzhou!"

While playing chess, Cao Cao said over and over again: "The battle report sent back by Feng Xiao made me feel that in this game of Bingzhou, my sending troops seems to be a bit of a villain!"

"Your Majesty said that Feng Xiao was tricked by Li Nie and failed to achieve the results we expected. In fact, there is nothing wrong with this battle. Feng Xiao must be a little upset now!"

Xi Zhicai said with a smile: "He had already suffered a loss when he was in the East China Sea, and now he has been tricked by Li Nie, and there is this anger in his heart..."

"That's not what I'm talking about. Guo Fengxiao's ability is by no means inferior to Li Nie's. No matter his reaction or strategy, he is the top. It's just that he calculated Huang Zhong first and turned from darkness to light, while Li Nie was always there. In the dark, the praying mantis catches the cicada. The oriole is behind, he has lost to Sun Zhongmou's prudence!"

Cao Cao didn't care about Guo Jia being tricked by Li Nie, what he cared about was: "What I want to say is whether I made a mistake when I chose to send troops to merge the state and reinforce the Huns.

Although I and Sun Zhongmou are fighting for the Central Plains, but Sun Zhongmou is driving out the barbarians, even if I don't help, I shouldn't be on the side of the barbarians! "

Since ancient times, there has always been a gap between the Central Plains people and the grassland barbarians.During the hundreds of years of the Great Han Dynasty, how many people were famous in history for expelling the barbarians and conquering the grasslands.

"Your Majesty, if you think so, then you are wrong. Although you were angry at the time when you decided to send troops, this humble minister thinks there is nothing wrong with sending troops!"

Xi Zhicai heard the words, but he was very firm in Cao Cao's dispatch of troops.Said: "We will absolutely not allow Sun Wu to win a stable northern border, which is not good for us Cao Wei. There is no right or wrong in the struggle between countries, and what should be used should be used.

I know Your Majesty's heart, and I have never been ashamed of turning barbarians from outsiders, but the dispute between Wei and Wu is the general trend of the world, and everything else can be given up.This time we sent troops to take down Liu Bao, at least leaving a force on the grassland to hold back Sun Wu's footsteps! "

"When I was young, I often envied Huo Guanjun who expelled the barbarians and the grasslands, and I also made up my mind. I will follow his example in the future, expelling the Tartars and protecting me. I only hope that the epitaph of the great Han Cao Zhengxi will be left on the epitaph after death." name taboo!"

Cao Cao stared at the chessboard, as if the whole chessboard was the world. After thinking for a long time, he made a move, but his mouth was a little mocking: "But now I am like this game of chess. Before I know it, I have come to where I am today. Today's step, I have never thought that one day the Huns will be called my dependent allies, is it because I have forgotten, or I am still inferior to Sun Quan!"

After all, Sun Wu is too powerful, so strong that Cao Wei can't confront it head-on. He can only win over the shameless forces in the past and use them for his own use, so as to fight against Sun Wu's progress.

Or, he, Cao Cao, has forgotten his former ambitions?

Regarding this dispatch of troops, Cao Cao was carrying a lot of anger. At the beginning, Cao Ren's death in the battle of Shangyong made Cao Cao mad and wanted revenge, but now Cao Cao, who has calmed down, somewhat regretted it.

Sun Quan sent troops to expel the Xiongnu and Xianbei, which was said to be a great thing in the whole Central Plains, and he praised his achievements, but he went to the side of the barbarians.

"Your Majesty, you are wrong again!"

Xi Zhicai smiled and corrected him persistently: "The Xiongnu are not our allies, but officials of the Great Wei. It is the general trend for Liu Bao to submit to our Great Wei. We cannot let him go. Your Majesty is the supreme leader of the Great Wei, and the whole world belongs to the Great Wei. , Great Wei needs to have a kind of boldness like the king of the world, no one can be an ally of Great Wei, either an enemy or a subject!"

"Under the whole world, is it the land of the king, and the shore of the land, is it the subject of the king!"

Cao Cao murmured out this poem, and his eyes became more and more firm: "At this point, in fact, I have nowhere to go. For the sake of Wei, everything can be sacrificed!"

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Xi Zhicai smiled slightly, Cao Cao is Cao Cao, his heart is as firm as iron, a momentary loss will not affect any of his decisions.

"I heard that Sun Quan is going to personally conquer the Kingdom of Shu?" Cao Cao said suddenly.

"Ok!"

Xi Zhicai nodded, and said: "At the latest, the end of July will send troops. This time, Sun Wu is very aggressive. According to the news that the ghost soldier came back, Sun Wu claimed to send 80 troops, but in fact he dispatched at least 30 troops." main force.

Although Liu Bei has now taken down the entire Xichuan and joined forces with Zhang Ren, but they are chaotic internally, lack of background, and lack of popular support. I think he can't stop Sun Quan's footsteps! "

"How are our soldiers and horses organized now?" Cao Cao continued after pondering for a while.

"By the end of this year, the major rectification should be completed!"

Xi Zhicai looked at Cao Cao and asked tentatively, "Your Majesty wants to take this opportunity to send troops to Soochow to raid Jinling City?"

"I'm not stupid!"

Cao Cao shook his head: "Sun Quan will not give us this opportunity, but I want to take this opportunity to send troops to take back Xiliang, Bingzhou, and Youzhou in one fell swoop!"

"Xiliang is not difficult!"

Xi Zhicai heard the words, calculated the feasibility in his mind, and said: "If our army presses up, Ma Chao will definitely not be able to stop it, but whether we want to recruit Ma Chao or destroy Ma Chao, this has to be carefully considered.

As for Bingzhou.It is possible for us to fight and get it back. After all, the blood wolf army has suffered heavy casualties in this battle, and it will not be able to recover its combat effectiveness within a year or so.

But if we want to seize Youzhou, I'm afraid it will be very difficult! "

"Youzhou has become richer and richer under the management of the Northland Chamber of Commerce in recent years. Compared with our Jizhou, it is one-third richer. If you can win Youzhou, the Great Wei will definitely be even more powerful!"

Cao Cao was a little unwilling.

"His Majesty!"

Xi Zhicai still shook his head: "Sun Wu has ruled Youzhou for some time, and I believe that it is not suitable to attack Youzhou at this moment, because the people's hearts are not enough. Taking Youzhou will only be a burden, not necessarily a help!"

"Right!"

Cao Cao nodded, sighed helplessly, and expressed his agreement.Sometimes people's hearts are not good, but sometimes they are very important. Cao Wei has no people's hearts in Youzhou.

"Your Majesty, the first step is Xiliang. Our Majesty takes advantage of Sun Quan's expedition to the west. Solve Ma Chao!"

Xi Zhicai said: "In the future duel between Wei and Wu, no one will be able to grasp Ma Chao's movements. Although he is allied with us now, he can also go back on his word and join hands with Sun Wu to make us suffer from the enemy!"

"Ma Chao?"

Cao Cao narrowed his eyes: "This is a mighty general, I don't want to kill him, I want to win him over!"

"Between Cao Wei and Ma Chao, there is a feud that killed the father, and this is the most difficult point to solve!" Xi Zhicai said.

"Is there a way to get the best of both worlds?" Cao Cao asked.

"Your Majesty needs a choice!" Xi Zhicai replied.

"What is taking, what is giving up?"

Cao Cao narrowed his eyes, looked at Xi Zhicai, and asked in a deep voice.

"She Weiduan. Take Ma Chao!"

Xi Zhicai's eyes flickered with a fierce light, and said: "Ma Teng died at the hands of Wei Duan, we can only use him to eliminate Ma Chao's hatred, so we can hope to recruit this fierce general!"

"No!"

Cao Cao shook his head and said, "Although Ma Chao is good, I can't fall out with the entire Guanzhong family because of him. It's not worth it!"